Hi Paul, Well, there are quite a few blind roll players out there because its fun and for the most part its accessible. The paper and pen versions basically just includes a bunch of young guys and girls sitting around someone's dining room table with some playing dice, a few sheets of paper, and a pen to keep track of their characters skills, stats, and progress in the adventure. One member of the group is selected to be the gamemaster, and he or she tells the story and makes decisions weather or not a certain action is possible according to the core rules of the game.
Although, some people regard roll playing a bit geeky or childish I find it very fun. Its a way for adults to get together and pretend for a few hours that they are living in a different world, a different time and place, and allows him/her to assume some roll or character that interests them. Depending on the guild or group some people go as far as dressing up in costumes and play live versions of the game with other guild members. While I have never gone as far as to do the live roll playing in costume myself I've heard of people who have. However, if you think about it its not much different than those Civil War buffs who dress up in Union or Confederate uniforms and run around the countryside pretending to reenact various Civil War battles. In this case you have guys dressed up as knights, magicians, whatever doing the same thing in a fantasy setting.In the case of Star Wars people will dress up as a Jedi, Storm Trooper, Yuuzhan Vong, or whatever their roll is and reenact it out. Cheers! On 6/15/12, Paul Lemm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry I hadn't thought of that, I'm so used to scanning everything with OCR > that I totally forgot that just scanning something normally just gives > you > an image of everything rather than text. Which like you said is obviously > what people without any sight problems would do. > > Sounds like a big (and possibly very frustrating) task ahead of you, but I > imagine that it will be worth the while in the end. I'm sure you'll be glad > to have an accessible version and from various lists I seen other people > with sight loss talking about these kind of role play games to so I think > there will be some others that will enjoy and appreciate the work you do on > this once its completed > > Hopefully you find a way of turning off the automatic dictionary , I'm sure > that will make it a little easier, well hopefully anyway. > > All the best --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
